Shemini Atzeret/Simchat Torah

MEDITATION: Seeing the Good in Each Step (Simchat Torah, Parashat V’Zot HaBerachah, Parashat Bereishit)

And God saw that it was good. Not perfect, not complete, but still good, in and of itself, in this moment. (Click image to read more and to listen)

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ESSAY: Seeing the Good at Each Step (Simchat Torah, Parashat VeZot HaBerachah, Parashat Bereishit)

We don’t have to be done with our work to celebrate. (Click image to read more)

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SHORT ESSAY: Shemini Atzeret and God’s Yearning for Unity (Shemini Atzeret)

“Kashah alay preidatchem.” After all this time of repentance and introspection and realignment, God says — listen, here’s what I really care about: what most upsets Me is separation in all its forms, separation from Me, separation from each other and separation from your own selves. (Cick image to read more)

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SHORT ESSAY: The Otherworldly Part of Us (Shemini Atzeret)

We each have a pure soul that partakes at all times of another world, even as we live in this one.    Shemini Atzeret is the holiday of this other world.  As the eighth day of Sukkot and yet a holiday unto itself, it epitomizes “eighthness,” the quality of being beyond the world that was created

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